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Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster by PhasmaFelis on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @04:02AM (#14742354)
In their defense, I would guess that making such a system 100% reliable and unintrusive may be a lot harder than we realize. It's not uncommon for Google Maps to be off by a few blocks for 10 seconds or more, and that could very easily be fatal if you're using it to land an airplane.
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Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster by wfunction on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @04:07AM (#14742381)
Are you suggesting their current GPS systems have that kind of issue though? I'm just asking for an interface to be added, not a entire concept of GPS functionality to be added. I'm assuming the latter is already used. It's not like I was suggesting they use Google Maps.
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Re:SFO near miss might have triggered aviation disaster by Piskvorrr on Tuesday July 11, 2017 @05:18AM (#14742672)
Indeed. GPS (and friends) are a best-effort affair - works great, most of the time.
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